Garment support for train dresses



Sept. 7, 1937. E. H. BINNS GARMENT SUPPORT FOR TRAIN DRESSES Filed March 50, 1936 IN V EN TOR.

'A TTORNEY Patented Sept. 7, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

1 Claim.

My invention consists of an improvement in combination garment supporter and protector, having for its object the support and protection of abnormally long garments. The invention is 5 particularly designed to provide for use in connection with womens wear and particularly gowns having trains or similar skirt extensions.

Ordinarily when such garments are suspended on an ordinary hanger or clothes support, and

0 are desirably covered by a protecting bag or covering of any kind, the skirt extension or train usually either has to drag upon the floor or to be pinned or otherwise secured upwardly to the garment itself to prevent such dragging and exposure and possible injury.

My invention is particularly designed for use in connection with a protector of the kind disclosed in my pending application Serial No. 63,543, although it is not limited thereto and may be utilized in connection with any of the various kinds of garment protectors now on the market.

The particular feature of the invention herein involved consists in combining with the yoke portion of the garment supporter, commonly called a hanger, a horizontal depending rod or bar capable of being suspended therefrom by a cord or the like, at any desired elevation, for supplemental support of the train extension of the supported dress or gown.

One preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. l is a view in front elevation of a garment hanger provided with the supporting rod and illustrating its use in connection with an outer protector;

Fig. 2 is a view of the same in side elevation partly in section;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a detail View illustrating the attachment of the bar supporting cord to the yoke, and adjustment thereof;

Fig. 5 is a view like Fig. 4 showing a modified construction of cord bearing abutments.

In the drawing the yoke 2, which may be of any conventional form and preferably provided with a cross bar 3, is suspended by the usual hook 4 from an upper cross bar or the like.

Extending outwardly from the face of the yoke at its upper middle portion is one or a pair of ordinary screw eyes 5, preferably located at the center, or one at each side of the meeting center of the oppositely extending arms of the hanger 55 2, thus constituting a bearing abutment or abutments. While any suitable bearing supports may be utilized in place of the screw eyes, I prefer them because they readily illustrate my objective in providing smooth rounded bearing surfaces for removably passing over them the supporting cord of the cross bar, as indicated.

In substitution for the screw eyes I may however use knobs of wood 5a as shown in Fig. 5, over which the cord or cords 9 may be passed and held in the same general manner.

The cross bar 6 is provided with terminal eyes or connecting extensions 1 suitably mounted on the ends of the bar as by embracing ferrule extensions 8, and are of a length approximately coextensive with the supporting width of the hanger, more or less, for free lateral extension and placement of the train of a skirt.

Connected with terminals 1 is a continuous cord 9, the upper portion of which is passed over the pair of screw eyes 5, for suspending the bar at its desired elevation. Where desirable, for varying the elevation of bar 6 the cord may be reduced in length by merely tying a knot ill for shortening, or releasing the knot for lengthening, or varying the knot more or less for the same general purpose, as will be readily understood.

In draping the garment over the hanger in the usual manner, the train extension of the skirt, being abnormally longer than the usual distance from the hanger 2 to the floor of a closet or the like, it must be protected; and in the present invention the supporting bar 6 provides for such contingency.

Thus the train extension I2 is looped upwardly as at l3 above the floor and laid over the bar 6, where depending therefrom all portions of the train are thus supported above the floor surface and thereby entirely within the covering capacity of the outer protector [4.

Such protector completely envelops the entire garment or garments enclosing them from access of dust or other foreign material and completely isolating the entire garment.

If desired, the lower edges of the protector may be connected by a series of easily connected separable snap fasteners l5, for better isolation of the enclosed garments. Otherwise the lower edges of the protector may be merely open and depending in the form of an inverted pouch or 50 bag.

It will be understood that one or more garments may be suspended in the same manner, either on the yoke itself or from the supplemental bar 3 and the train extensions of both looped upwardly over and supported by the bar in the same manner as above described. The bar supported in the manner shown may be utilized as described, or if not required may be readily removed, as for example, for application to another installation.

The entire device provides easy, convenient and serviceable means for completely supporting dresses, gowns, etc., particularly of the more delicate and fine material from injury or soiling.

The construction, advantages, and efliciency of the invention will be readily understood by all those accustomed to the use of such hangers, and may be changed or modified in size, design, or the like, within the scope of the following claim.

What I claim is:

In a garment supporter for train dresses, the combination with a yoke member of substantial thickness and depth having a supporting hook extension, rounded bearing abutments extending slightly outwardly from the middle front portion of the yoke, a lower continuously smooth cross bar in substantial parallelism with the yoke and in front thereof provided with connecting terminals and a flexible supporting element extending from each of said terminals upwardly at each side over the abutments and adapted to pass in front of a suspended garment supported on the yoke, said flexible supporting element being capable of shortening or lengthening for raising or lowering the cross bar by tying a knot therein or untying same.

EDWARD H. BINNS. 

